Engineering Manager - (Genetic Data)

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to work with our Genetics Squad. This is a vital role where you'll support scaling our systems to respond to increasing numbers of volunteers and manage multiple engineering teams through a key stage of growth. You will work with Genetic Data (both genotyped and imputed) and support the development and maintenance of pipelines and systems that process data, ensure quality control, and generate data releases for researchers.

If you have previous experience working in a similar role and have worked with Genetic Data, we'd love to see an application from you.

Our Future Health is the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.

Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people’s health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.

Requirements

We don't expect you to have experience with every single point but to be successful in this role you'll need to have experience of some of the following:

• You're a confident communicator who can work across multidisciplinary teams made up of Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Managers, and other stakeholders
• You're comfortable bridging technical and non-technical perspectives. You’re skilled at translating business and technical needs, managing expectations, and leading challenging conversations with senior stakeholders.
• You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them, and effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders  
• Experience working in an Agile development team following best practices including GitHub, code review, unit tests, TDD and CI/CD
• Experience line managing and coaching engineers in a successful, cross-functional development team
• An understanding and working knowledge of information governance and data security approaches appropriate for sensitive health data
• Experience in operationally managing software components/service once live, including:  observability best practises, logging best practises, error reporting, debugging and live incident management. Experience using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic etc  

• You are highly proficient in JIRA (building & maintaining JIRA sprint boards, building & maintaining JIRA timeline views, analysing sprint metrics, building queries to facilitate ticket navigation, building ticket filling standards, building JIRA alerts). Ideally hold experience with management tools (Asana, Trello etc). 
• You have experience working with genetic data (genotyping data and/or next-generation sequencing data). You are familiar with bioinformatics file formats (VCF, pVCF, BGEN) and common tooling (bcftools, PLINK etc)  

• You have experience with the design and deployment of complex data schemas. 

• You have experience building and maintaining robust, scalable and efficient pipelines capable of processing very large amounts of data from one or multiple systems. You know how to create repeatable and reusable products.   

• The ability to be hands on showing proficiency in Python and Bash
• You have experience working with data lakes; experience with Spark, Databricks.  

• Can demonstrate experience working within cloud environments (ideally Azure), and workflow management systems (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect). 

• You are highly proficient in containerisation (e.g. Docker) and deployment (e.g. Kubernetes). 

• Experience working with external data suppliers (defining requirements for suppliers, defining Service Level Agreements, attending joint meetings when needed). 

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Generous Pension Scheme – We invest in your future with employer contributions of up to 12%.
• 30 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays – Enjoy a generous holiday allowance with the flexibility to take bank holidays when it suits you.
• Enhanced Parental Leave – Supporting you during life’s biggest moments.
• Career Growth & Development – £500 per year to spend on Learnerbly, our learning platform, plus regular appraisals and development opportunities.
• Cycle to Work Scheme – Save 25-39% on a new bike and accessories through salary sacrifice.
• Home & Tech Savings – Get up to 8% off on IKEA and Currys products, spreading the cost over 12 months through salary sacrifice
• £1,000 Employee Referral Bonus – Know someone amazing? Get rewarded for bringing them on board!
• Wellbeing Support – Access to Mental Health First Aiders, plus 24/7 online GP services and an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family.
• A Great Place to Work – We have a lovely Central London office in Holborn, and offer flexible and remote working arrangements.

Join us - let’s prevent disease together.

We advise not delaying your application, as this advert may close early if a high number of applications are received.

At Our Future Health, we recognise the importance of having a diverse workforce and ensuring that all candidates, regardless of their background, have equitable access to our application process. We proactively encourage applicants who identify as having a disability, neurodiversity, or long-term health conditions to let us know if they require any reasonable adjustments as part of their application process. 

If you do require any reasonable adjustments, please email us at [email protected]